Tag: 12.31.20
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians Protest Met Tactics
“Every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not...
In Many Countries, Losing Restaurants Means Losing Community
Diego Salazar, former chair of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, has had a longer quarantine than many people. Sure, he and his wife order...
The Louis Kahn Dorms Threatened For Destruction In India
To continue the Threatened Buildings theme: "A world-class architectural-preservation controversy is brewing in India, where the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad had...
The Fate Of The Media-Puffed, Free-Credit-Flowing, Neoliberal Restaurant After Covid
Is food over? Is dining? How can restaurant owners, especially empty, corporate ownership groups, justify their whining while treating low-paid workers like absolute crap?...
American Television Simply Can’t Deal With Aging And Death
TV execs might say the reason is that audiences don't like to see death (which seems a little odd after the successes of Six...
The Law Professor Who Did More Than Dream Of Being A Novelist Later In...
Pam Jenoff - you may know her from The Diplomat's Wife, The Lost Girls of Paris, and many other novels - started taking writing...
Australia’s National Anthem Gets An Anti-Racist Tweak
The anthem - which replaced "God Save the Queen" only in 1984, though it had been written in the late 19th century - previously...
TV Production Stays On Holiday Hiatus In Los Angeles As Covid Numbers Rise And...
Positive cases have been identified - in one case described as a cluster of infections - in several of the studios where production won't...
Hollywood Had Rules, And In 2020, It Busted Them All
A lot happened to the moviemaking business in 2020, but not a lot of it by choice. "Since March, the industry has, in effect,...
Claude Bolling, Jazz And Classical Pianist, 90
Bolling's fusion of jazz and classical made him the most popular pianist, composer, and bandleader in Europe for a time. "A devotee since childhood...